Vending machine



FILED AUG. 21,1520.

W. H. LARAWAY.v

vENmNG MACHINE.

@nventoz Jan. 16, 1923.

Will/. 177 H. L 761 Wa y Patented Jan. 16, 1923.

UNITED `STATES [WILLIAM n. LARAWAY, or GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

VENDING MACHINE.

Application feed August a1, 1920. serial No. 405,115.

To all whom t may concern.' l

Be lrnown that I, IVILLIAM II. LAnA- WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigamhave invented certainl new and useful Improvements in Vending' Machines, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in vending machines, and its object is to provide a cheaply made, positively acting vending machine that is not easy of access.

I attain these objects by the mechanism shown inthe accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 isa front elevation of the ma-4 chine; Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation yof the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.l Fig. 3 is a like view ofthe lower part of the machinev upon an enlarged scale. Fig. ,l1 is a plan of the coin actuated trip, and slides andv their supporting element or floor. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan of the same showing the coin discharge slot the entire. length of the tri jmilar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

This invention lies principally in the manner of applying and operating the coin controlled mechanism, which is practically as follows: The case 1 is not different from the cases used in many yvending machines. It is made with partitions 3, back of the glass front 2, for the vreception and free movement of the bottles 23 between the back partition Below'thelower ends of the partitions 3" I make a iloor 16 upon which the sliding doors or slides 17 slide freely, and I make a small door 14 back of each sliding door 17 which is held in normal position with a spring 15. Normally this door, or these doors are closed and a bottle is located between its, or their, lower ends and the back edges of the sliding doors 17 so that if the sliding door is forced toward the back of the machine the'bottle will force the door 14 open and will drop from between these doors and the slides and into the bottom of the machine, as indicated by their dotted lines in Fig. 3. i

I provide for sliding the sliding -doors 17 by placing projecting arms 19 upon the upward projection 28 of the slide 17, and passing it through the projection 18 on-the floor 9, back of the retaining plate 21.

The trip 9 is pivotally mounted in the` case 1, as at 12, and has a slot 10 thefentire length 'of its lower side for the` passage oflcoin ,24,l 1,. Y v The coin trip stands, normally, in the position indicated from itsreception slot 11.

byv its dotted lines in Fig; 3 or its solidlines in Fig. 2, where it is held'by any available form of spring, as indicated at 13, sothat when a coin, as a ten cent piece, is passed eline. 3 0 and rest upon the ledge 29 until the verticalv position, as indicated in Fig.` 3,

'16' and tintothe slot'openingllvin theitrip through the slot 6 it will pass uponthe in?,V i

which-forms a resistance that forces theslide off of the floor 16, and when the trip is carreleased and may drop into the coin recep- 17vbackwardly until a bottle 23 is dropped ried back into normal position the coin'A is tacle 26, or such other receptacleasmay be r provided. In this instance I have shown' a door 27 for providing access to the coin receptacle.

The actuating rod 12, which forms thel pivotal support of the trip 9 passes through the trip supports 22 and has bearings 25 `85 formed thereon, and at the end of one of these bearings I place' any available form of handle, as indicated at 5, for manipulating the trip 9 to force the bottles out ofthe passage of the'bottles out of the machine through the opening 7, or its equivalent.

4It will be readily understood that many y changes may be made in the construction of this machine without departing `from the spirit of my invention, as that-lies'pri'ncipallyf in the manner of entering the coin into the trip, of forcing the bottles out of the machine, and of returning the trip linto normal position, which is accomplished with the plate 21 drawing upon the hea-d of ,the arm 19. l Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new in the art, is: 1. In a vending machine partitions forming vreceptacles for goods, doors Apivotally* connected with certain of said partitions, springs for holding said doors in normal positions, a floor below said door, a sliding actuating element upon said floor, va trip ypivotally mounted inthe machine atvone corner, said trip having .a receiving slot `machine, as hereinbefore indicated. In the` base 4 I1 provide a curved chute 20 for the formed by an angular bearing yat'one Side and a `metal plate at the other side, and a ledge formed at the base of the angular bearing7 said trip also having a discharge slot arranged to cooperate with the inclined opening to discharge a aoin7 and an arm extending from the sliding element into the trip back of the plate so the movements of the trip will actuate the sliding elements.

2. In a vending machine, partitions forming ySlots for the storage of bottles, a door hinged to the lower end of one of the partitions, a spring for holding saidvdoor in normal position, a iioor below the slot, a Sliding element upon the floor below the slot,

a swinging coin actuated trip pivotally mounted in the machine, said trip k"hin/*ing a groove in one edge for the discharge of coin, and an opening in the `other edge formed by cutting away parts ofthe trip and `forining an inclined receiving surface and a ledge, said opening having a metal covering sai-d covering being slotted `for the passage of an arm on the slide, an arm extending backwardly from the slide 'andenga'ging the trip to actuate the Slide from the rifnovements 4 of the trip.

Signed at Grand Rapids,v Michigan, August 17, 1920.

' WILLIAM H. LARAWAY. 

